SiteSURV 4.0 cloud web filtering for SMBs

HARRISBURG, US: CyberPatrol LLC, a leading developer of web filtering solutions for families, educators and business, has announced SiteSURV 4.0, the latest version of its customizable Cloud Managed Service specifically designed and priced for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

The growing ranks of SiteSURV customers have found that low cost Web filtering in the cloud can cut costs directly and indirectly, in the form of higher employee productivity and lower maintenance costs. SiteSURV installs in minutes, requires no hardware, is customizable through an online control panel and comes with a 30-day money back guarantee.

In a continuous effort to upgrade SiteSURV according to the needs of current and prospective customers, CyberPatrol has improved both customization and reporting features. SiteSURV allows user to select categories to be blocked or allowed from the database of 44 total categories. Now users can customize the standard options (formerly an uneditable default setting) and easily create and include a custom list of urls to block or allow.

In further enhancing the ability to meet regulatory and internal policy requirements, SiteSURV now provides reporting that includes both requested and blocked sites. These reports are easily downloaded from the online console and graph usage of the past 30 days by location.

“With SiteSURV 4.0, SMBs have a web filtering solution once available only to large enterprises,” said CyberPatrol president and COO, John Sancin. “Delivered in the cloud, this level of security is available at a fraction of the total cost and with an ease of use that was once unimaginable.”

CyberPatrol SiteSURV 4.0 starts at $119 per year for a five user license and provides customizable filtering via an easy to use web control panel. Setting up SiteSURV requires business owners to take just two basic steps; Providing CyberPatrol with the IP Address of their access point and changing the DNS on their Internet access point (PC, router, or server). Each license purchased comes with 4 access points.

SiteSURV 4.0 uses 44 categories of web sites, including 8 recommended categories to be blocked as part of a default profile setting that can now be customized. The recommended blocked categories are; Adult, Alcohol and Tobacco, Error or Blank, Gambling, Hacking and Warez, Illegal Activities, Parked Domains, and XXX.

CyberPatrol proactively scans the Internet looking for sites using the proprietary SiteCAT Engine. Through the use of industry leading domain classification algorithms, over one million domains are crawled and analyzed every twenty four hours. Customers receive updates as quickly as 15 minutes from the time the threat is detected. Continuous and aggressive detection of these sites provides updated protection.

“More than ever, in this challenging economic environment, there’s no reason SMBs should expose themselves to online threats,” added Sancin. “SiteSURV 4.0 is perhaps the most affordable solution available to business owners who must secure their computers and data and keep employees engaged in profit-directed activity.”